Hi Michelle. If you're at all empathetic, this feeling of emptiness might be explained by the stress and exhaustion of being continually lied to: science, art, medicine, religion, music, history, literature; oh, and the banks and their politcians. Who can we trust? And when it all starts to unravel, we are left without any associative coherence, which is so uncomfortable. Of course there are personal and individual reasons as well, but you are most definitely not alone.